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Fram2  SpaceX successfully launches four humans into orbit over Earth’s poles, for the first time for a human spaceflight mission. The journey will last three to five days. (The New York Times) 

Thursday, April 3rd, 2025 

A 25% tariff on all automotive imports into the United States enters force. No exemptions are announced despite requests from several major trade partners, including Japan and the United Kingdom. (Reuters) 

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The United States Air Force deploys 6 nuclear-capable B-2 Stealth Jets to Diego Garcia, amid rising tensions with Iran over their nuclear program. (AP) 

The Houthis claim that they shot down a U.S. military MQ-9 Reaper drone in Marib Governorate, Yemen. (AP) 

Archaeologists with the Vienna Museum announce the discovery of a mass grave in Simmering district in Vienna, Austria, of around 150 Ancient Roman soldiers from the 1st century who likely died in a battle. (DW) (Caledonian Record) 

A court in New York City indicts José Adolfo Macías Villamar, the leader of the organized crime syndicate Los Choneros, on seven counts of drug trafficking, conspiracy, arms trafficking, and illegal drug distribution in the United States. Villamar is not currently in U.S. custody. (AP) 

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lands in Budapest, Hungary, a signatory of the International Criminal Court, for a state visit in defiance of the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant against him for alleged war crimes. (The Jerusalem Post) 

The Hungarian Government announces it will withdraw from the ICC. (Reuters) 

The Israeli Air Force launches airstrikes in Syria targeting the remaining “military infrastructure”, destroying much of Hama Air Base and Tiyas Air Base, including all remaining hangars and radars. The Barzah scientific research centre is also reportedly bombed. (The Times of Israel) 

Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces the country’s military will seize large areas of land in the Gaza Strip and establish a new occupation zone called the Morag Corridor, potentially stretching from Rafah to Khan Younis. (AP) 

Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025 

U.S. president Donald Trump announces a universal 10% tariff on most imports into the United States, a 20% tariff on goods from the European Union, and a 34% tariff on all imports from China. The tariffs will take effect from April 5. Exceptions include Canada, Cuba, Mexico, North Korea, and Russia. (BBC News) 

The United States Senate votes 51-48 on a non-binding resolution to rebuke and reverse tariffs on Canada, with Republicans Rand Paul, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Mitch McConnell voting for the resolution. (NPR) 

Russian forces target Kharkiv with at least 13 Geran-2 drones, causing fires in industrial and residential areas and injuring eight people, including a child. (Ukrainska Pravda) 

Wazalendo militias broke through March 23 Movement (M23) positions in Kampala, DRC, and launched an attack on the M23 rebels in Walikale. (Critical Threats) 

At least two civilians are killed in the artillery shelling of a displacement camp in El Fasher, North Darfur, Sudan, by the Rapid Support Forces. (AP) 

The Myanmar government declares a temporary ceasefire with the National Unity Government-in-exile and its various allied ethnic armed organizations to facilitate relief efforts following the M_W 7.7 earthquake in the country several days ago. The ceasefire is expected to last until April 22. (DW) 

A Russian Air Force Tupolev Tu-22M strategic bomber crashes due to a technical malfunction in Irkutsk Oblast, Russia, killing one crew member and injuring three others. (Reuters) 

A Russian missile strike on an industrial park in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, kills at least four people and injures 14 others. (Reuters) 

The Slovak government approves a plan to cull 350 brown bears after a man was found mauled by a bear on March 30. The government had previously culled 144 bears in 2024. (AP) 

The Polish government increases border controls with Slovakia in response to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease among Slovakia’s and Hungary’s livestock. (TVN24) 

Five people are killed and at least one other is critically injured when a private Maharashtra State Road Transport Corporation bus collides head-on with two vehicles on the Khamgaon-Shegaon highway in Buldhana, Maharashtra, India. (News18 India) 

TSN president Stewart Johnston is announced as the 15th commissioner of the Canadian Football League, replacing Randy Ambrosie who had served in the role since 2017. (CBC) 

The World Meteorological Organization retires Beryl, Helene, Milton, and John from their rotating list of names for hurricanes for the North Atlantic and East Pacific basins.(WMO) 

The Storm Prediction Center in the United States issues a rare high risk convective outlook over parts of the Mississippi River valley, ahead of an expected tornado outbreak. (Storm Prediction Center) 

Seismic activity increases near Grindavík, Iceland, with the Icelandic Meteorological Office reporting that a volcanic eruption has occurred and a earthquake is being registered. People visiting the Blue Lagoon are being evacuated rapidly. (The Watchers) 

Tuesday,  April 1st, 2025 

The uncrewed German-built Spectrum orbital rocket is launched in Andøya, Norway, becoming the first orbital rocket to launch from mainland Europe. The rocket stays in the air for just over half a minute before striking the ground and exploding. (The Guardian) 

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy and People’s Liberation Army Air Force conduct large-scale military exercises around Taiwan. At least 19 Chinese warships are deployed, including the aircraft carrier Shandong, marking its closest ever approach to the island. (The Guardian) 

Four people are killed, including Hassan Bdeir, a high-ranking Hezbollah official, and seven others are injured by an Israeli airstrike on a building in Dahieh, Beirut, Lebanon. (Reuters)

U.S. Senator Cory Booker delivers the longest speech in United States Senate history, breaking the previous record set by Strom Thurmond in 1957. (AP News) 

U.S. missile strikes on Hodeidah, Yemen, hit a water management facility, killing at least four people, according to the Houthi-run Al-Masirah network. (Al Jazeera) 

The Russian ministry of defence says that Russian forces have captured Rozlyv [uk] in Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine. (Al Arabiya) 

A small airplane goes missing and is later found crashed into a lake in Os outside of Bergen, Norway, leaving two onboard dead. (Sunnmørsposten) 

At least 305 people are injured after a gas pipeline owned by Petronas explodes and ignites a fire in Putra Heights, Selangor, Malaysia. (Malay Mail) 

The 2025 FIDE Women’s World Chess Championship match between Ju Wenjun and Tan Zhongyi is scheduled to take place from April 1 to 23, across two Chinese cities: Shanghai and Chongqing. (ChessBase) 

Bedfordshire Police shoot dead a man suspected of carrying a firearm at Milton Keynes Central railway station in Milton Keynes, England. (The Guardian) 

UNICEF reports that over 332 children have been killed and 609 injured by the new Israeli military offensive across the Gaza Strip since the resumption of the war after the breakdown of the 2025 ceasefire. (BBC News) 

Supporters of former King of Nepal Gyanendra clash with riot police in Kathmandu, Nepal, leaving two people dead and several others injured. (AP) 

Japanese restaurant chain Sukiya orders the temporary closure of almost all of its nearly 2,000 locations in the country after finding a rat and a cockroach in its food.  (CBS News) 

Monday,  March 31st, 2025 

 National Rally politician Marine Le Pen is convicted of embezzlement and banned from running for political office for five years, meaning she cannot stand in the next French presidential election. (France24) 

Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian says that Iran will not have direct negotiations with the U.S. on its nuclear program, but is open for indirect talks to rebuild trust, after U.S. president Donald Trump threatened “bombing” if Iran does not agree to a new nuclear deal. (Reuters) 

The Iranian IRGC Navy seizes two foreign oil tankers in the Persian Gulf and is towing the vessels to the country’s Bushehr port, claiming they are part of a “fuel-smuggling network“. It is currently unknown what countries the vessels belong to. (Al Arabiya) 

The recovery operation of the U.S. Army M88 vehicle that sank in Lithuanian swamps on Pabradė Training Area finishes after five days. Lithuanian president Gitanas Nauseda says that 3 out of 4 missing Americans are found dead, with the last person still missing. (DW) 

A court in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, sentences three people to death for killing Israeli–Moldovan rabbi Zvi Kogan in 2024. A fourth accomplice who aided in the murder receives a life sentence. (AP) 

The United States announces sanctions on six Chinese and Hong Kong officials, including head of the national security office Dong Jingwei, accusing them of “transnational oppression and undermining Hong Kong autonomy”. (DW) 

The Royal Australian Air Force deploys a long-range maritime patrol aircraft P-8 Poseidon to Kadena Air Base in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan, to monitor North Korean maritime activities in the Yellow Sea, including weapons shipments prohibited under international sanctions. (NK News) 

Brazilian police arrest a Syrian consulate employee in Brazil after discovering over 600 smuggled electronic devices and other luxury goods valued at over US$700,000 in his diplomatic vehicle during a highway inspection in Ponta Porã. (G1) 

The bodies of fourteen aid workers killed on March 23 are recovered from a mass grave in southern Gaza. One body had previously been recovered and one more is believed to remain buried. Of the sixteen workers, nine are members of the Palestine Red Crescent Society, six are civil defense workers, and one is a UN agency employee. (CNN) 

Six Russian drones hit Kyivskyi district of Kharkiv, Ukraine, damaging several buildings and injuring three people. (Ukrainska Pravda) 

The Caribbean guilder becomes legal tender in Curaçao and Sint Maarten, which will co-circulate alongside its predecessor, the Netherlands Antillean guilder, until 1 July 2025. (NOS) 

The State Administration Council declares a period of national mourning in Myanmar to last until April 6 as the death toll from the earthquake last week rises to over 3,050 people. (AFP via Barron’s) 

Five people are killed and four are injured after an explosion at a coal mine in Degaña, Asturias, Spain. (BBC News) 

The Moldovan foreign affairs ministry expels three Russian diplomats and declares them personae non gratae after accusing the Russian embassy in Chișinău of helping Alexandr Nesterovschi, a pro-Russia politician convicted of corruption, escape to Transnistria. (DW) 

Newly elected Prime Minister of Greenland Jens-Frederik Nielsen rules out Greenland joining the United States while he is in office. (AP) 

Sunday, March 30th, 2025 

Israel intercepts a ballistic missile fired from Yemen in the eighth Houthi attack since the Israeli Defense Force resumed the Gaza war. The Houthis claim to have launched three attacks with drones, missiles, and naval forces against the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in the past 24 hours. (The Times of Israel) 

The count of the total amount of destroyed ancient pagodas and religious buildings in Myanmar rises to 61, including the previously unreported Four-Storied Monastery in Inwa, Mandalay Region. (NP) 

A 7.0 M_w earthquake strikes near the island country of Tonga with a 6.1 M_w aftershock. A tsunami warning is issued and later lifted. (AP) 

Severe weather and tornadoes break out in the areas between south Indiana and north east Texas, United States. (NYT) 

Three children are killed and three other people are injured after a tree hits their vehicle near Kalamazoo, Michigan. (AP) 

A bus driver shoots and kills two passengers on a Miami-Dade Transit bus in Miami Gardens, Florida, United States. (AP) 

The End